Center for Book Arts holiday market tonight, Marvin Heiferman lecture next week, + art holiday markets next two weeks!
'Tis the season of artist-centered holiday markets, plus a live streamed lecture from curator and writer Heiferman on navigating his grief on Instagram
Winter Market at Center for Book Arts
Tonight, 12/1 5-9pm, last entry 8pm; 28 W. 27th St., 3rd Fl
”A holiday market featuring works for sale from our community of artists, members, and instructors. Purchase a gift for someone else or for yourself, view our current exhibitions, and chat with staff and instructors about workshops, artist programs, and upcoming events.” While there, I highly recommend checking out CBA’s current exhibition, Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990.
Zine Fest at Trans-Pecos
Sunday, 12/3 4-9pm; 915 Wyckoff Ave.
Brooklyn venue Trans-Pecos will host their final zine fest of the year, bringing together zine-makers, print-makers, and clothing + ware makers! All vendors are listed below with their Instagram accounts.
According to the Resident Advisor event listing, 70% of door proceeds will be split and donated to the non-profit Palestine Legal which specializes in defending and protecting Palestinian advocates and victims of censorship, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network which advocates for Palestinian political prisoners, and to community member Din for the safe relocation of their Palestinian family from Yaffa, Tel Aviv in Israel to New York City. The remaining 30% will be used to pay our DJs for the day. The event as always is a suggested $10 donation but pay what you can so you can also support our vendors.
Meet the Artist: Marvin Heiferman at the Center for Photography in Woodstock (Livestream available)
Thursday, 12/7 6-7:30pm; 474 Broadway, Kingston & YouTube live stream
I recognized writer and curator Heiferman on the subway some months back and I was happy to see that he wasn’t bothered by my uninvited introduction. I’ve been following his Instagram account for a while now where he’s been using photography to grieve the loss of his husband Maurice Berger from COVID in March 2020. The photographs are often quiet and minimal, sometimes including a single object, or maybe none. Heiferman will sprak on the photographs he continues to make and share in the 3+ years since Berger’s death. YouTube live stream is available here.
Press Play 2023: Book & Music Fair at Pioneer Works
Saturday, 12/9 12-7pm & Sunday, 12/10 12-7pm; 159 Pioneer St.
”Join Pioneer Works for our fourth edition of Press Play, a weekend-long fair of books, small presses, records, art, ephemera, and publications of all kinds. This year we invite publishers, artists, musicians, labels, and their communities to participate in talks, performances, and workshops that showcase new ways of reading, listening, and creating culture today.” Free RSVP!
Vendors range from individual artists, and indie presses, to institutions in academia. Some of the many exhibiting include 8-Ball Community, Apogee Graphics, Art Against Displacement, Chang Yuchen, Fugitive Materials, Genderfail, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, Matarile Ediciones, Nightboat Books, Seaton Street Press, Secret Riso Club, Siglio, and Wendy’s Subway. For a full list of exhibitors and programming, visit here.
2nd Annual Duplicate Poster Sale at Interference Archive
Sunday, 12/10 1-5pm; 314 7th St., Brooklyn
While not labeled a holiday event, this event comes at a good time to be directing your holiday funds to a great volunteer-run organization and archive specializing in protest and liberation ephemera, zines, and pamphlets! Interference Archive’s current exhibition, Palestine Lives!, surveys their ongoing 10-year collaboration with the group Librarians & Archivists with Palestine who has been collecting and archiving Palestinian liberation prints, posters, etc. since their initial 2013 visit to Palestine. The exhibit is on view through 3/15/2024.
This is Interference Archive’s second poster sale. The first sale was described as the following: “Over the past decade, we’ve had tens of thousands of posters donated to us, and even though we try to avoid receiving multiple copies—we don’t have space to keep duplicates—we find ourselves drowning in duplicates. We’ve shared extras with other archives, community spaces, and allied projects, but we sometimes still have an extra 5 or 10 copies of a single poster.”
Holiday Market at Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)
Saturday, 12/16 11am-6pm & Sunday, 12/17 12-6pm; 225 W. 13th St.
So far CARA hasn’t announced any of the vending artists and organizations, but if it’s anything like last year’s market (vendors listed), it’ll be a great one. Some of that year’s vendors included Chinatown cultural preservation organization and community-based initiative W.O.W. Project, Chinatown staple ceramic store Wing on Wo, and artist-duo Alex Tartarsky and Ming Lin’s Canal Street Research Association which puts forth a contemporary artist-centered understanding of NYC utilizing its corporate, commercial, and historic stains of the past.
Bluestockings & Friends: Reader’s Wonderland Holiday Pop Up at Bluestockings Cooperative
Sunday, 12/17 12-5pm; 116 Suffolk St.
As the bookstore and cafe’s Instagram post reads: “6+ book stores and zinesters all under one roof!” Vendors include NYC-culture bookstore Village Works, the first female-owned Asian-American bookstore in NYC Yu & Me Books specalizing in Asian-American and immigrant authorship (which operates now in Essex Crossing’s Market Line while they search for a new space following their store’s recent fire), indie bookstore and bar Book Club Bar, Queer-history NYC collective Close Friends Collective, and “more to be announced!”